SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Around midnight on Christmas Eve of 2009, a handful of employees at Twitter received an unconventional holiday greeting from Dick Costolo, then the chief operating officer.

The price of vetting a nominee’s social media history and scrubbing offensive posts is minuscule compared to the cost of courting Oscar voters through tastemaker screenings, for-your ...

Over time, this adds up to a lot of history, and now Twitter wants to make it easier for businesses to access that history. The company announced on its official blog that developers will soon ...